Fwd: Collision damage costs

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From: Jim Donald <tiare.taporo@gmail.com>
Date: 31 December 2014 at 10:05
Subject: Fwd: Collision damage costs
To: Simon Purdell <spurdell66@gmail.com>

Hi again Simon,

Sorry, but there is another item of damage cost that I forgot when sending you my earlier email 2 days ago. It is the nav. light mounted on the front of the pulpit. You'll recall that the lens was broken. However, when we were at Port Dickson earlier this year we had been having intermittent trouble with our masthead lights and so needed the additional insurance of the lower lights - which is why they were there in the first place. Initially we tried to obtain a replacement lens but of course that was unavailable so we had to replace the whole fitting. Again we tried to keep the cost down - however, it was a round figure of the equivalent of NZD100. At that time the exchange rate with the Aussie was around a 20% difference (it's now nearly at par) so it's reasonable to say that the cost of the light was AUD80. This needs to be added to the earlier amount advised which is a total of AUD476. We trust that we can look forward to receiving this amount soon.

Regards,

Jim Donald

s.v. Tiare Taporo III

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From: Jim Donald <tiare.taporo@gmail.com>
Date: 29 December 2014 at 11:35
Subject: Fwd: Collision damage costs
To: Simon Purdell <spurdell66@gmail.com>

Hi Simon,

We noticed belatedly that you were at Coconuts Restaurant the other night. Pity that we didn't make contact - however, we presume that you are hauled out at Premier Boatyard; we are in the marina at Yacht Haven.

We have finally been able to have the collision damage sustained at Kupang repaired during a recent haulout at Krabi Boat Lagoon. Popeye Marine (Des Kearns) was the contractor. After assessing the damage they told us they could effect the repairs without removing the affected structures from the boat and we elected to go down that path as it would be much cheaper (not having to remove and reinstall electrical wiring, etc.), and also less disruptive all round, albeit that we knew that the end result would not be perfect.

The resultant job, while expertly done, is acceptable but is not totally back to the condition that it was in pre collision, but we are prepared to live with that. Considerable ingenuity on the part of Popeye and Wit, their engineer, enabled the repairs to be carried out in situ. We are of course happy that it has finally been repaired.

The damage caused was that the pulpit had been pushed some 4" to starboard, the starboard pin rail had been forced upwards potentially causing damage to the standing rigging, and the structure aft that supports the starboard solar panel had been bent inboard.

We had the potential rigging issue checked just recently by David Samuelson at East Marine and he doesn't think there is any latent damage. The pin rail itself was lucky not to have broken, merely suffering some scratches which have been fixed along with other varnish work we have had done with Popeye.

It was extremely lucky in the circumstances prevailing at the time that further damage was not done. This was prevented by the arrival of several tenders from other yachts who forced "Kealba" away. The other fortuitous result was that we were where we were because if we hadn't been, it is our opinion that your boat would have dragged into water too deep for the anchor to touch bottom and she would have gone ashore on the lee shore behind us. Considering that you carried no insurance, we think that you at least owe us something for that.

We trust that you will see your way clear to reimbursing us for our costs which you will see from the attached email amount to 12,500 Baht. We also acknowledge that you provided assistance to us in allowing us to run our engine again by lending us and installing an electric fuel pump. We consider that that amounted to 8 hours of your time. However, as far as labour rates are concerned we have to compare apples with apples and one day's work for Popeye's engineer was charged out to us at 2,000 Baht per day. Therefore it seems appropriate to deduct this amount from the overall damage repair cost which indicates that you owe us a net 10,500 Baht. This amounts to AUD396 at approx. 26.5 Baht to 1 AUD.

We trust that we can look forward to receiving this amount as soon as possible. As to the practicality of making payment, we will be here for just a few more days - after that it could be a problem. Otherwise we can give you our bank details in NZ if that's appropriate.  

We should also add that Des Kearns is a person of the utmost integrity. He is Australian by birth and has spent almost all his working life at sea as a master mariner and more latterly as a marine surveyor in the oil industry based in Singapore. He is now retired and is acting as a consultant to his wife's business, Popeye Marine, as well as continuing his marine surveying business. When they were based in Satun they undertook many maintenance and restoration jobs, the largest of which was the complete rebuild of the 118' ketch "Cariad" which had been built in England in 1896. They also built and completely fitted out an alloy sloop of approximately the same size - called "Silver Lining". Their expertise and extensive experience is without question.

We'll look forward to your prompt reply.

Regards,

Jim and Jean

s.v. Tiare Taporo III

Yacht Haven Marina

Phuket.

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From: Des Kearns <des@deskearns.com>
Date: 29 December 2014 at 08:36
Subject: Collision damage costs
To: Jim Donald <tiare.taporo@gmail.com>
Cc: "Popeye Marine Co., Ltd." <info@popeyemarine.com>

Re: Kupang Collision Damage from yacht Kealba

Dear Jim,

We looked up our records and the total cost of Taire Taporo III stainless steel collision damage repairs was 12,500 Baht.

This figure includes labour and all materials,


Kind regards,

Des

POPEYE MARINE
Krabi Boat Lagoon
175 Moo 2 Talingchan
Nuea Klong. Krabi 81130. Thailand
08 6906-2004 (Thai)
08 4846-8869 (English)
info@popeyemarine.com